Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento was buzzing Friday as front-line workers lined up for their shot. Read More
Month: December 2020
“To not be offered a vaccine when I am at the hospital, FaceTiming in attendings (physicians) from home so they can see their patients, and I am in the COVID-positive room, and those attendings are offered a vaccine, it’s very hurtful.” Read More
For Black Americans, the story extends far beyond distrust of Donald Trump—it goes back to the Tuskegee experiment and the medical exploitation of Henrietta Lacks. Read More
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COVID-19 vaccine vials hold an extra dose
Pharmacists said they learned about the “extra” dose this week. After getting FDA guidance, they began to administer the extra dose to patients. Read More
As health care workers and the elderly began receiving the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine this week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released updated guidelines Wednesday that clarify employers can require employees to get the vaccine when it becomes widely available in most cases. Read More
New Jersey will get 20 percent fewer doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines through the end of the year, health officials said Friday. The Garden State had been promised 492,075 doses of the Read More
An Alaska health care worker had an allergic reaction after receiving a dose of the new Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, the third such incident in three days. The worker was treated and released after six hours. Read More
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Sen. Brown receives COVID-19 vaccine
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WCMH) — Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown was among members of both political parties in Congress who received the COVID-19 vaccine Friday. In a statement from Brown’s office… Read More
How could the Covid-19 vaccine possibly be safe if it was produced, tested and authorized in record time? There are lots of myths about the coronavirus vaccine. Read More
For decades, mRNA vaccines faced too many obstacles. With the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic, many were figured out — and now they can be used against other diseases.id. Read More